By Kevin McCauley
Glover Park Group is repping the Fuels America coalition, which calls on Environment Protection Agency head Lisa Jackson to reject demands for a waiver to the Renewable Fuel Standard.
Groups, such as the Heritage Organization, believe the RFS, which sets the level of ethanol in gasoline, is among reasons for rising food prices. It wants RFS waived-- or better still--scrapped.
FA, which expects a decision by Jackson at any minute, has designated today a “Fuels Day of Action.”
It wants supporters to send Jackson a tweet in support of RFS, which it claims has helped reduce oil imports from the Persian Gulf by 25 percent since 2000.
GPG’s FA lobby team includes Catherine Ransom, a former climate and environmental advisor to Senator Max Baucus’ Environment and Public Works Committee; Brian Gaston, ex-aide to Speaker John Boehner and former Majority Leader Dick Armey; Grant Leslie, staffer to former Majority Leader Tom Daschle and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, and Jack Krumholtz, former chief D.C. lobbyist for Microsoft.
FA is funded by DuPont, National Corn Growers Assn., Biotechnology Industry Organization, National Farmers Union, Renewable Fuels Assn., Spain’s Abengoa Bioenergy and Denmark’s Novozymes.
WPP owns GPG. |